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The new apartheid is decentralised, encrypted in algorithms, and cloaked in the language of economic rationality and legal formalism and it’s not only in South Africa. Photo: File

The mask of apartheid – privatisation

The state once enforced exclusion through law, now racial inequality is decentralised and enforced by private actors through economics, technology, the law, capital and technology

Graphic: John McCann/M&G

International court: Why it’s time to take the fight against corruption global

Corruption is no longer a domestic issue; it is a transnational crime and national systems cannot control it on their own

Olivier Laouchez (Photo supplied)

Bold innovations for this year’s Trace Awards — and beyond

This year, the Trace Awards will feature a range of categories celebrating musical excellence across different regions and genres

Meeting his Waterloo? Gifts wrapped in Christmas paper featuring the likeness of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump are on the stage during a rally hosted by the former president on 19 December in Waterloo, Iowa. Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Year of elections: The world chooses its fate

More than two billion people are eligible to make their crosses in the most important election year of our collective democratic history

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu attend a ceremony, marking the Day of Remembrance and Sorrow, June 22, 2023 in Moscow. (Contributor/Getty Images)

Wagner chief vows to topple Russia top brass, says fighters ‘ready to die’

Yevgeny Prigozhin said his forces, who have spearheaded much of Russia’s offensive in Ukraine, had entered the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don and controlled its military…

A protester holds up signs moments before writer E. Jean Carroll leaves a Manhattan court house after a jury found former President Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing her in a Manhattan department store in the 1990’s.  Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Trump found liable for sexually abusing writer

Trump did not testify during the proceedings, nor did his defence team call any witnesses

US President Donald Trump. (File photo by Seth Wenig-Pool/Getty Images)

Trump charges: hush money paid to porn star, model and doorman

Under New York law, a defendant convicted of falsifying business records can receive between one and four years in prison

US President Donald Trump. File photo: Cathal McNaughton/ Reuters

Trump turns himself in to face historic criminal charges

Police lined the streets while helicopters buzzed in the skies as Trump’s motorcade made the short drive to court

Flight searches for solo travel during Christmas and New Year saw a 172% jump compared to the 2019 festive period, with Asia being the top destination of choice for South Africans.
(Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Flight searches for solo travellers show 172% jump

South Africans travelling solo make Asian countries their top choice

US secretary of state Antony Blinken. (Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

US secretary of state Antony Blinken’s visit aims to reset relations with South Africa

Given South Africa’s leadership role, it’s an ideal location for the Secretary to deliver a speech announcing and describing the US strategy toward sub-Saharan Africa

An Orange County Sheriffs Deputy places police tape around the exterior of the church after a person opened fire during a church service attended by a Taiwanese congregation, killing one person and critically injuring four others at Geneva Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods Sunday, May 15, 2022. Authorities are interviewing more than 30 people who were inside the church at the time. The victims were described as mostly Asian and mostly of Taiwanese descent, authorities said. A law enforcement source said officials believe the suspect was a 68-year-old Asian man who is originally from Las Vegas. The source said after the suspect opened fire he was subdued by parishioners. No other details were available. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

One dead, four critically injured in California church shooting

This is the second mass shooting that took place in the US over the weekend

Pablo Escobar, the godfather of the Medellin Cartel in Colombia in February, 1988. (Eric VANDEVILLE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

Three decades after Pablo Escobar’s death, drugs ravage Medellin

With 2.2 million inhabitants, Medellin is today the city with the highest drug consumption – 15.5% – in Colombia

People walk with buckets while looking for a tap with running water in Zwelitsha, an informal settlement in Khayelitsha that is home to millions of people in mostly impoverished circumstances, near Cape Town on February 24, 2022. – It’s been four years since South Africa’s tourist capital nearly ran dry, during a drought that left the city limping towards a “Day Zero” when all the pipes would empty.
Now water flows liberally, but not for everyone.
The City of Cape Town estimates that about 31 neighbourhoods have no access to clean water.
That includes sprawling districts filled with shacks, but also working-class neighbourhoods. (RODGER BOSCH/AFP via Getty Images)

The global resolve to fight Covid shows we can do the same for climate change

The way in which countries worked together and marshalled resources to address the pandemic shows that big challenges can be addressed if there is political will

KYIV, UKRAINE – 2022/03/15: Smoke is coming out from a badly damaged residential building after a Russian mortar shell hit it. Russian forces continue their full scale invasion in Ukraine. To date their offensive has caused up to 2 million to flee, drawing criticism and protest from people around the world. (Mykhaylo Palinchak/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Putin’s war is damaging the developing world

The rise in oil and food prices owing to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is hitting poorer countries the hardest

Pensioners wait to get their monthly state pension payout on the parking lot at the Jabulani shopping mall.

South Africa needs to make pension system more inclusive, study says

South Africa’s pension system is ranked 31st out of 43 countries, receiving a C-grade which indicates major risks and shortcomings that should be addressed

World class: Para-athlete Maria Combrink set a world record in the women’s F64 shot put despite working full-time. Photo: Alet Pretorius/Gallo Images

South Africa’s emerging parasport stars are eager for global success

Though there are still challenges, parasport champions are breaking records on the track and in boardrooms

The 77 percent – The Magazine for Africa's Youth

The lack of proper housing is a problem all over the African continent.

Wakaliwood: Uganda's action-packed movies

In the middle of Wakaliga, a slum in Uganda's capital Kampala, Isaac Nabwana has been shooting low-budget action films for eight years. He is now an international star.

What Else? Episode 8 – How does hair define your identity?

Hair, your natural crowning glory, is often a big part of a person's identity. But then does chemically straightening it erase your identity as an African, or is it just a matter…

Meet the African Refugee Cycling Team

A passion for cycling has reunited a group of friends separated by the war in Eritrea. The African Refugee Cycling Team was founded in neighbouring Ethiopia. Now they hope to…